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  • Yeah I thought you’d ask this. Basically they’ll never do this, just because their attitude is “fuck you I’m a bank”.

    Beyond this, there’s a big difference between source code and having a working system.

    For very long running systems their state depends very heavily on how they were maintained, little bits of informal design decisions that get components working together, and the order stuff was loaded in, and what other services were up and running when you booted up.

    None of this magic is captured by source code, and it can make even setting up a replacement server, even as part of the same infrastructure really hard.

    Of course banks are moving to more modern dev methods that encourages turnkey deployment, but the fact that they still rely on a bunch of COBOL code tells you there’s a lot of very old system running in “do not touch” mode




  • Because it operates on the data of UK residents.

    The internet has made everything really weird in terms of jurisdictions. You can have photos of UK citizens taken in the UK and stored on a UK server, and if a company from somewhere else scrapes the data without permission and moves it out the UK, that doesn’t obviously mean that it’s now fine to use for whatever.

    Now of course the law has to have some jurisdictional limits, but it’s not surprising that there has been some disagreement about where they are.


  • I mean BMI is also useful for comparing individuals in certain instances. That’s why doctor’s use it.

    It’s a crappy measure, but it’s good enough for a range of use. You just have to be thoughtful enough to say, yeah it’s not going to work for this person.

    I’m not anti BMI, I’m just opposed to people repeating statements like “BMI is useful to compare populations” which don’t really mean anything.




  • No they’re shit at that too.

    Proof of ownership is this big complicated thing with lots of safeguards. If someone steals your title, you still own your car, and you can get this fixed.

    If someone steals your nft, it’s gone. The entire point of the Blockchain is there’s no central authority that you can appeal to who will do the work to check that transactions are legitimate.

    Anything that happened stays happened, unless the entire community explicitly roles back the Blockchain.